 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 530 pages
...mdeed, advanced it as a means of comprehending certain phenomena of light, but he explicitly says : ' 'Tis true that from my theory' I argue the corporeity...fundamental supposition, nor so much as any part of it.' l Newton, indeed, whilst urging objections against i Phil. Tranff. Vol. zp 5086 : quoted by Prof. Baden... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1871 - 444 pages
...have been set up as regards the emission theory, after his own distinct avowal : "'Tis true, that from theory I argue the corporeity of light; but I do it...of it."— (Phil. Trans., vol. x, 1675, p. 5086.) * While in respect to either hypothesis, it is sufficiently evident to those acquainted with his writings... | |
 | 1871 - 448 pages
...have been set up ns regards the emission theory, after his own distinct avowal : '"Tis true, that from theory I argue the corporeity of light; but I do it...doctrine, and not a fundamental supposition, nor so much us any part of it."— (Phil. Trans., vol.x, 1675, p. 5086.) While in respect to either hypothesis,... | |
 | 1893 - 630 pages
...light, but I do it without any absolute positiveness, as the word perhaps intimates, and make it at most a very plausible consequence of the doctrine and not a fundamental supposition." " Certainly," he continues, " my hypothesis has a much greater affinity with his own (Hooke's) than... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1894 - 1272 pages
...light, but I do it without any absolute positiveness, as the word perhaps intimates, and make it at most a very plausible consequence of the doctrine and not a fundamental supposition.' ' Certainly,' he continues. ' my hypothesis has a much greater affinity with his own [Hooke's] than... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 pages
...Rosenberger, op. cit., pp. 75-82. Cf. Brewster, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 90-91. "Horsley, Vol. IV, pp. 324-326. true that from my theory I argue the corporeity of...fundamental supposition, nor so much as any part of it, which was wholly comprehended in the precedent propositions. And I wonder how Mr. Hooke could imagine... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1924 - 608 pages
...undulations. With great hesitation did he argue against the wave hypothesis. "'Tis true," he says, "that from my Theory I argue the Corporeity of Light,...a very plausible consequence of the Doctrine." And again, "it has a much greater Affinity with his [the objector's] own Hypothesis, than he seems to be... | |
 | Mathematical Association - 1927 - 222 pages
...a hypothesis. * AN Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, p. 58. " It is true," Newton replies, " that from my theory I argue the corporeity of light,...of the doctrine, and not a fundamental supposition. . . . Had I intended any such hypothesis, I should somewhere have explained it." * " I do not think... | |
 | Mathematical Association - 1927 - 222 pages
...argue the Corporeity of Light ; but I do so without any absolute positivcncas, as the word jierhaji« intimates ; and make it at most but a very plausible...consequence of the Doctrine, and not a fundamental Stipjiosition " (p. 5086), and again : "... I do not think it needful to explicate my Doctrine by any... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 446 pages
...that from theory I argue the corporeity of light; but I do it without any absolnte positiveness, an the word ' perhaps ' intimates ; and make it at most...fundamental supposition, nor so much as any part of it."— (1'liil. Trans., vol. x, 1675, p. r>0rti.) While iu respect to either hypothesis, it is snfliciently... | |
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Tis true, that from theory I argue the corporeity of light ; but I do it without any absolute positiveness, as the word . perhaps ' intimates ; and make it at most but a very plausible consequence of the doctrine, and not a fundamental supposition, nor... 
